Have you ever seen or heard of a great idea or product and then couldn’t buy it? Or at least in the configuration you wanted? Yesterday I saw the coolest concept, a divided box for holding your sponge daubers in . Now my system wasn’t bad. I had labels on the daubers and was storing them in an old clear stamp box from a wood set that got converted to clear mount. But they slid about in the box as you will see , I don’t have a lot. I started out using the sponges and though I have a fairly good inventory of daubers I am just slowly putting them into service and inking them. So I went out to the web site I heard about. And the box was only being sold with all the daubers. It’s a great deal if you don’t have any or many daubers but I have too many for it to be cost effective for me. So I researched and located the manufacturer of the box part – but they were out of stock and had no idea when they would be in stock.
Sigh… and I am impatient at times. 
So I put on my thinking cape and thought, and thought….
And viola – hour later I had prototype 1 created. All out of Stampin Up materials.
Pretty nifty! And it hold 35 daubers! On a creation high, I called my daughter and downline. And she said, “Write a tutorial!” “ Oh and can you make one big enough to hold all 40 colors plus room for extras?” So, I did. After reengineering the design – I created one that holds 54 daubers. 
and the outside looks like this:
My Sponge Dauber Box tutorial has templates and directions for both a Small box holding 35 and a larger one holding 54. All for only $5.00. And you get the fun of creating your tool.
11 responses to “A Stampin Up Sponge Dauber Box or 2…”
Hi, Kathy! What an awesome idea!
what size stamp box is this? I don’t unmount my wood ones, so, can the SU stamp boxes be bought?
Thanks!
Sherry
Kathy—you rock my stamping world!
I love your creative idea and am interesting in buying the tutorial but I have one question. Does it include a color chart too?
Thank you for your help,
Betty Gillespie
Pretty cool! What did you use for the clear box?
This is a great tool, Kathy. Thanks for creating it and sharing your talent.
Very good idea. We can always come up with a solution, when we can’t find it. thanks for sharing. Happy Stamping!!!
yes that is one of the 6 templates included with the tutorial
I used the stamp boxes that our wood mount stamps come in. In the tutorial, I included directions and templates for 2 sizes and also specify the exact size box used in each. These boxes are also avail separately as a supply item from a Stampin Up Demo is you don’t have an extra from an old stamp set.
I used the stamp boxes that our wood mount stamps come in. In the tutorial, I included directions and templates for 2 sizes and also specify the exact size box used in each. These boxes are also avail separately as a supply item from a Stampin Up Demo is you don’t have an extra from an old stamp set.
Love this idea but where do I find a box in the correct size?????
TIA!